Crud covered chairs, used band-aids in the water, lobster inducing sunshine… this is a hellish landscape of Petey’s nightmares! The only thing missing is the junior assistant lifeguard in training, Ernesto.
It’s only talking about this particular “The Amazing Spider-Man#1.” It doesn’t say it outsold every other comic sales record, just the previous record for this comic.
I just take it as more of a comic/story telling style. Many comics exist in purely or mostly a kids world. Take Peanuts, for example, where the adults are never seen and only occasionally heard. Adults are sometimes involved in this comic, but the action and events and consequences rarely bleed outside the immediate characters and plot into the greater world. Anything outside of itself is just unimportant.
Crud covered chairs, used band-aids in the water, lobster inducing sunshine… this is a hellish landscape of Petey’s nightmares! The only thing missing is the junior assistant lifeguard in training, Ernesto.